Ma Jingyuan saw that Zhu Hongsan was about to go in, and hurriedly said on the side: "Your Majesty, here... ”

Zhu Hongsan didn't wait for Ma Jingyuan to finish speaking and pushed him away, he walked in, and saw that only five or six of the more than ten people were still alive, and the others had been dead for many days, and a few had begun to rot.

Zhu Hongsan came out and asked the Jinyi guards who followed to carry out all the people in the shack, a total of thirteen people, six of whom were still panting, and the others were all dead, and the flesh on the legs and arms of two of the dead people was gone, and it seemed that there were traces of cutting with knives and axes, and they should have been eaten.

Zhu Hongsan knew that the officials under him were not things, but he didn't expect that there would be a tragic situation of cannibalism among the homeless camps.

Zhu Hongsan pointed to the corpse on the ground and asked, "You parents, tell me what's going on?" ”

Ambassador Zou Shikai was sweating profusely, and hurriedly said: "Long live, there are too many people in the camp, it is inevitable that there will be an epidemic, plus there is not enough food to eat, and there are not enough people under him, so it is understandable that there are some places that cannot be taken care of!" ”

Zhu Hongsan said to Han Sanqiang, who was following him: "Sanqiang, you take a hundred people and open up the dozen or so shacks around you to see if you can't take care of them?" ”

Han Sanqiang ordered people to take people to open more than 20 shacks around, and the situation inside was similar to this, each shack had a different number of dead people, and at the same time, there were people eating people.

Zhu Hongsan pointed to the ambassador Zou Shikai who was spread on the ground and said, "Come on, first arrest this extenuating guy!" ”

After speaking, he said to Qian Yiai: "Qian Yiai, you take me to see your granary, I want to see why the grain is not enough?" ”

Qian Yiai saw that things had progressed to this point, and he had to go down step by step, and he couldn't take the emperor to the granary north of the camp of the homeless camp.

There were twelve large grain hoards in the granary, each containing a thousand stone of grain, which was a hundred tons for the generations to come. Because it was only shipped at the end of February, I didn't eat much in the past few days, and every grain hoard was still full.

Two days ago, the officials of Shangyuan County wasted half a day's energy, and it was easy to raise more than 200 stone of grain, which was not enough to fill a grain hoard, and in the end there was no way to separate each grain hoard with a wooden board at the bottom, and spread a layer of grain on it, which looked like a lot, but in fact there was only a thin layer.

Zhu Hongsan came to the front of the grain hoard, asked people to bring a ladder, and prepared to go up to have a look. At this time, the officials under his command dared to let the emperor go up to take a look, Zhu Guoshou hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, this grain hoard is three zhang high, Your Majesty's body is precious and must not be climbed, let others go and see!" ”

Zhu Hongsan knew that there was a trick in it as soon as he heard it, but he didn't say anything, nodded and said, "Okay, what you said is very right, prince!" You are my son, you go up on behalf of Lao Tzu to see if these officials have deceived me or not! ”

When Qian Yiai heard the emperor say this, he breathed a sigh of relief, he had a good relationship with the prince, and there should be no problem.

Zhu Hai got the order of his father, climbed the ladder and looked into the grain hoard, but he couldn't see anything on the surface, a layer of rice. Zhu Hai came down and bowed down and said, "Father, it's all rice!" ”

Zhu Hongsan asked, "Can you see clearly?" ”

"Erchen can see clearly, there is nothing special!"

Zhu Hongsan sneered twice: "Prince, I'll let you see the Western scenery today!" ”

After speaking, he said to the brocade guard behind him: "You guys go and tear down the grass curtain outside the grain hoard!" "Those brocade guards don't care about those, as long as the emperor has an order, they will find a long ladder to go to the sky. However, the officials of Shangyuan County on the side were paralyzed with fright.

Things are the same as Zhu Hongsan thought, these officials have swallowed the relief grain for the displaced people with their hands, and these twelve grain hoards only have a layer of grain on the top, separated by wooden planks below, and they are all hollow.

Zhu Hongsan pointed to the twelve hollow grain hoards and asked, "What else do you have to say?" Qian Lide, take down all the officials below Chen Guoshou, the political envoy of Jiangsu, and strictly interrogate them by the Fusi of Weibei Town, Jinyi, and ask them how they embezzled the grain privately! ”

After Zhu Hongsan finished speaking, he looked at the magistrate of Jiangning County, and then said: "Jiangning County doesn't need to go to see it, it is estimated that it will be the same as Ma Jingyuan, the prefect of Yingtian, Shangyuan Zhixian, Jiangning Zhixian and all the people, etc., check it for me, and I will not tolerate it!" ”

Emperor Longwei attacked, and the civil officials present collapsed to the ground one by one, and the Jinyi Wei didn't care about those, and knocked off the official hats of these ministers who had just returned five people and six people, and tied them up with ropes.

Zhu Hongsan didn't care about Jinyiwei taking people here, and took people back to the palace.

After returning to the palace, Zhu Hongsan sat on the chair and did not speak, Zhu Hai cautiously persuaded: "Father, don't be angry with those corrupt people!" ”

Zhu Hongsan shook his hand and said, "I knew what it was like today a few days ago, but I still have to go today, do you know why, prince?" ”

"I don't know!"

"I'm just here to show you what these officials are today! You have seen the tragic situation in the camp camps, just like this, these officials still dare to steal grain and sell it, maybe I should really kill a group of officials! After Zhu Hongsan finished speaking, he tapped the handle of the dragon chair with his fingers.

Zhu Hai knew that his father had a murderous motive at this time, and hurriedly interceded for those officials: "Father, this matter can't be done by all officials, it must be a few people who are corrupt and pervert the law!" ”

Zhu Hongsan looked at Zhu Hai like a dog-like leader in later generations: "The revolutionary team is pure, but a few stinky fish spoiled a pot of soup!" Zhu Hongsan remembered that a county-level leader said this at a meeting in later generations, but within half a month, he became the stinky fish with a bad pot of soup and was kicked out of the revolutionary ranks.

Zhu Hongsan looked at his son and said, "Prince, do you think I took you there today just to watch the fun?" I want you to see that the Wenchen you trust are not a good thing, and they will use your trust to dig into your corners and destroy the foundation of the Ming Dynasty! ”

Zhu Hai listened to his father's reprimand for himself, didn't dare to speak, stood with his hands down, and obediently listened to his father's education of himself.

Zhu Hongsan stood up, walked to the center of the hall and said: "The cornerstone of the Ming Dynasty is not the Confucian teachings you learned, nor the literati and strategists who followed you, but the ordinary people I saw just now!" Only when the common people are well fed and clothed, can your throne sit safely, if you don't let the people have enough to eat, Chongzhen is your example! On the other hand, those scholars and doctors, they just work for you, and if they do a good job, they will leave their names in history, and if they don't do well, they will pat their butts and leave, and in turn, they will say that your emperor is wrong, and your emperor is a faint king! ”

After Zhu Hongsan finished speaking, he walked up to Zhu Hai, stared into his eyes and asked, "Do you understand what I said?" ”

Zhu Hai was drenched in sweat by what Zhu Hongsan said, bowed his head and said, "Erchen knows!" But how can we govern the country without the help of these ministers? ”

Zhu Hongsan smiled and said, "You can ask this sentence, you can teach it!" These Wenchen are like donkeys that pull the mill, they can't work without whipping, and they have to steal the wheat on the grinding plate when they have free time, so you have to whip one hand with a leather whip and a sharp blade with the other, and if you don't work, you will use a leather whip to whip, and if you steal wheat, you have to kill the donkey with a knife, anyway, there are many donkeys in the world who want to pull the mill! ”

Zhu Hai looked at Li Chengen standing on the side, and knew that the leather whip that his father compared to the emperor was Jinyiwei, and the sharp blade was Dongchang.

"Father, what if the whip and the blade are not obedient?"

Zhu Hongsan laughed and said, "Then it depends on your emperor's means!" ”

After Zhu Hongsan finished speaking, he said to Li Chengen: "Old Li, do you think what I said is right? ”

Li Chengen was so frightened that he almost didn't pull his pants, so he quickly knelt down and kowtowed: "Emperor, the slave is the emperor's dog, and the emperor will bite whoever he wants!" ”

"Lao Li, don't think that what you are doing I don't know, whose 53,000 acres of fertile land outside Guangzhou belong to? Is the Li family's money village in the city your nephew's? Last night, you and your godson Li Gan said that he should spy on Han Qi, right? ”

There was no one in the house what Li Chengen and his godson said last night, and now the emperor knows the details, and Li Chengen is so scared that he really pees his pants this time.

Li Chengen hurriedly grabbed the ground with his head, and after a few strokes, his forehead was bleeding, and he didn't dare to wipe it, crying: "Emperor, the slave is loyal to the emperor!" The slave was afraid of Han Qi's dictatorship so he let his godson spy on him, and the slave had absolutely no selfish intentions! ”

Zhu Hongsan kicked Li Chengen and scolded: "You old dog, do you think you have any crooked thoughts to live until now?" Don't get out of here and change your pants yet! ”

Li Chengen was relieved when he heard the emperor say this, knowing that the emperor didn't want to kill himself today, so he quickly got up and went out to change his pants.

Seeing Li Chengen go out, Zhu Hongsan waved his hand to let the little eunuchs in the house go out, and then said to Zhu Hai: "Son, although they call Dad Long Live, but Dad can't really live 10,000 years, he will die after all, and this country will eventually pass on to you." You have to remember that in this era, everyone is a, and you can only rely on yourself! Those Wenchen said one by one, but they all have their own little abacus, you have to use the whip and knife in your hand to control them, this is what a Ming Jun should do, not to make some bullshit, you know? ”

Zhu Hai knew that today was the way that his father had seriously taught him to be a king, so he quickly nodded and said, "Erchen remembers!" ”

Basically all the officials of the two counties were implicated, and more than 1,600 people were involved in the case. In addition to the officials of the two counties, there were also grain merchants who purchased grain, convoys that transported grain, and Yaxing who matched the bridges, and these people were arrested and imprisoned by Jinyiwei under Zhu Hongsan's strict order to kill his mistakes.

However, except for a few first offenders, not many people were worried, and everyone thought that this case was the same as Qianming, and it would be over if you killed a few substitute ghosts. However, they misjudged Zhu Hongsan, and after the trial of the case was completed, Zhu Hongsan waved his three pens, and more than 1,600 people, including their families, totaled more than 24,000 people, 960 people were beheaded, more than 2,300 people were beheaded, and countless people were bought into slavery by the government and sent to Luzon. One of the men of the grain store, who had been working in the grain store for less than half a month, was also charged with the crime of knowingly not reporting it, and he was executed himself, and his family was assigned to Luzon.

This case, known as one of the three major cases of Shenwu in later generations, the "Displaced People Case", lasted more than half a year before it came to an end under the rolling heads. At this time, the local officials in Nanzhili discovered that the new master was a ruthless emperor who was not inferior to Zhu Yuanzhang. But what these people don't know is that this is only the least murder of the three major cases.